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Aerospace engineer Cauê added a town square to his site (scroll to the bottom) and this brings back strong vibes of when the internet used to be fun. The project is open source if you want to have a place on your site for people to hang out.
I'm still wondering about anchor positioning (baseline newly available) use cases beyond the tooltip example. Emil explains how multiple anchors help out with creating clickable card overlays. Fancy stuff!
And if that's not enough anchoring, Josh explains how to get started with anchor positioning. But don't be fooled, the post gets into advanced topics like the anchored container query and position-try-fallbacks quickly.
Safari shipped display: grid-lanes. Chromium's working on it. But what does it mean for accessibility when grid items are free-flowing and reordering themselves? Can an adjusted flow-tolerance help? Manuel asks the same questions and cautiously proposes a very interesting solution.
color-scheme and prefers-color-scheme disconnect 
Ollie described a fact that tripped me up big time:
There’s an unfortunate disconnect between color-scheme and the prefers-color-scheme media query. prefers-color-scheme reflects the OS settings — regardless of the color-scheme value. If you’re providing an in-page toggle that implements dark mode, you can’t adopt the prefers-color-scheme media query.
So what do you do about it? The post has some web platform answers.
So! If you're dealing with SVG icons you probably know the pain of overwriting colors. Patrick listed missing SVG features and as it turns out there's a new spec in the making that allows controlling CSS variables from "the outside". And I didn't test it, but he says that it's shipping in Firefox already!
The music nerds will love this one!
Honestly, I'm up for opinions here. The new Deno release now supports building desktop apps. When I saw this I was confused. Didn't Deno lay off people and isn't the money in providing hosting and infrastructure? Odd.
But then I also saw Vercel pushing for building Zig and web-based desktop apps with Native SDK?
Honestly, what is going on? Is this about market share? I don't get it.
What you see above aren't canvas or SVG elements. These three range sliders are classical range inputs with some CSS magic. I've got no idea how Temani comes up with that stuff.
It's already a tradition and I'm happy to see that Paweł is still summarizing the new JavaScript features. Check out what's coming to JavaScript.
Jake went on a journey to "improve" the sizing behavior of customizable selects (Chromium-only so far) and oh boy... he goes into anchor positioning, stretch and fit-content, and calc-size. I'm sure you'll find more than one rabbit hole to dive into here.
QUERY HTTP method moved from draft to proposed standard.usermedia element.
From the unlimited MDN knowledge archive...
Quick reminder, cross-document view transitions can be enabled with a few lines of CSS. Safari and Chromium ship them, so you can add some polish to your static sites. No harm done for Firefox users.
zoom 
A while ago I learned about valid use cases for the CSS zoom property. zoom? Yes, exactly. 😅
I've got my own tooling for checking baseline updates, but if the Web Weekly updates aren't enough, webstatus.dev now lets you set up baseline notifications.
My buddy Orçun is building AutoShelf and you should check it out if you want automated file organization.
If you've ever wondered what specific analyzer tools, user agents, or browsers execute when they crawl sites, ua-tracer helps out!
Side note: the last time I mentioned that I'm not really sure about Tiny Helper's future because frankly I'm drowning in vibe code submissions. Some of you replied telling me that you really like this section. So, what should I do with it?
For now, I closed contributions to the project and this section will become optional. I'm annoyed by this because I'm a big fan of consistency, but let's see how this plays out.
This is a take I can get very much behind.
In an ideal world, the only AI-generated content I want to consume is the one I request myself.
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